SAM has made a Mars discovery

SAM has made a Mars discovery

NASA/JPL-Caltech

A discovery said to be "one for the history books" has been made by SAM, a suite of science instruments aboard NASA's Curiosity. Here, workers inside a clean room at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Canada-Flintridge prepare to install SAM into the rover.

A discovery said to be "one for the history books" has been made by SAM, a suite of science instruments aboard NASA's Curiosity. Here, workers inside a clean room at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Canada-Flintridge prepare to install SAM into the rover. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

A discovery said to be "one for the history books" has been made by SAM, a suite of science instruments aboard NASA's Curiosity. Here, workers inside a clean room at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Canada-Flintridge prepare to install SAM into the rover.